Adapting comedy for a new era: Farce and vaudeville in “A Flea in Her Ear” Student dramaturgs Dumas and Green offer insight into upcoming Dept. of Theatre production
Chapman University’s Department of Theatre chose to take on a French farce as its first production of the spring semester. A Flea In Her Ear, published by popular farceur Georges Feydeau (1862–1921) in 1907 and translated by acclaimed modern playwright David Ives (1950–) in 2006, has been a classic within both its genre and comedy itself for over a